BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 4002, 22 December 1875, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

nu rm CIUHAiisTOWN, Drc-nibor 20. Ihe Thames jo aval Rowing Club has decided to send a crow to Wellington for the Interprovircial heg-Utt, and two boats .are (u contest, one for the Championship (LFSO) prize, ami (L100)‘' ber f ° r th ° four ' oared inrigged race . . CiutisiCHtir.GH, December 22 A pure white lark hj >« been c night on Ram-i----tata Island. B i have decided to n.siiuct the Heal'd! Officer at Lyttelton to inspect all intercolonial vessels before any communication witn shore, with tho \ icw of preventing the introduction of scarlet fever • to mform the Health Offers .a the other ports ot ew Zealand of tins action, and to request them to supply information to tho Board of anything arising in their respective districts connected with rc uLt fever. {From our own Correspondent.) T) .... Queenktows, December 20. iolKica are now at a discount, owiii" to the preparations for the Christmas holidays Ihe weather is extremely favorable for the crops. Large quantities of oats, flour, ami barley are being forwarded to the Cromwell markets, ami [mrolnv.os made at improved

La V, LKNeL’, 1 ‘ect-mber .. U ‘ s “ 111 '- Maso:- presented Air '! ,! (..'inner, vvno has been appointed Master of t!m J nuiistmi .'school, with a testimonial, and ent-r----mui-M nini at a supper in Mildam'd Victoria ilotcl. Air I ifcchener v/nii widely known ami greatly respected m this district. 'The weather lu re, is intensely hot. Gayuer, the man accused of * attempt, d murder at apanuf, has been ■:[ eeharmd. The mystery of the ihe at Flue ."pur is m t yet cleared up.

~ . Liv£i:t.)V, December 22 .Hr .'miUi fl,r;ived liero by co;e hj on Aicmhiv ;id:ci (.oon ; stayed with Mr t-.’.iloway th.n night, and got up at seven o’clock on Tuevi-n’ morning, and IMt tho hj use at half-pas*. cw.-if, saying that ho was going to take a walk! and would return for breakfast at about

n'nc. There being no appearance of him all the forenoon Air Galloway cot uneasy and informed the police at diimor-tmie that Mr Smith was missing. 'they heard nothing farther until six o’clock, when the members of the Boating Club coming up the river in their boat saw clothes on the beach with “ C. Smith ” on a handkerchief. They gave information to the police, and the clothes wore identified I*s belonging to Mr Smith, who was last seen about one o'clock going in the direction where his clothes wore found, and had been seen at nine o’clock bathing near tlm same place, so that he must have gone in’o the river twice. The placo where ho went in is four or Roe fathoms d ep, a few yards from the shore, with strong under currents. It is supposed, from tho delicate state of health he was in, that he must have taken cramp and Mink in deep water. J hpolice were dragging the river last night and to-day, but the body has not yet neon found, No one saw him go into the water the last time.